Archive for July, 2011

The BlackHatters saw a recent post by Wordstream the other day regarding the sectors in which Google makes its money. This post was shortly after Google announcing its last sectors $9bn revenues (seriously…with that kind of money they can buy their own country and not have to worry about the US regulators!) and was entitled [...]

Bulmers PPC Blooper

Posted: 27th July 2011 by blackhat in PPC Bloopers
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Another week and another PPC Blooper. This one isn’t so much about what the ad copy says, we just cant work out what this ad is matching on in order to show. The keyword is ‘biffyclyro’ and there is an ad for Bulmers Cider showing on it…. Is there some connection we are not getting [...]

Microsoft to buy Sony?

Posted: 25th July 2011 by blackhat in Black Hat PPC
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The BlackHatters were having a mini argument amongst ourselves the other day about a new domain registration we saw. Domain Name: sony-microsoft.com        Created on…………..: Wed, Jul 13, 2011       Expires on…………..: Fri, Jul 13, 2012       Record last updated on..: Wed, Jul 13, 2011     Administrative Contact:       Microsoft Corporation       Domain Administrator       One Microsoft Way [...]

We were interested to read this article earlier in the week on thedrum.co.uk. It’s about Facebook suspending an advertiser account for advertising for people to join him on Google+. The article says… ‘A Facebook user has been banned from the website after he bought an advert on the social media website – inviting people to [...]

Penis Enlargement Blooper

Posted: 21st July 2011 by blackhat in PPC Bloopers
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A random title for this post, we’d think you’d agree. But this week’s PPC Blooper comes from the term ‘penis elargement’…. Errm…’credit crunch  deal’ for the term ‘penis enlargement’…what’s going on there?? Our guess is they are delivering this ad against a some kind of implant like broad match term. Whilst this is a random [...]